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Reprise: Niter for gunpowder

Before his death in June, 1863, the novel’s Major Clayton Ellis already was planning to recover niter from bat guano in the caves around Knoxville. His superiors in Nashville wanted it to make gunpowder for Confederate arms as the conventional … Continue reading

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